Eni has set up a joint venture company named Vårgrønn together with Norwegian energy investor HitecVision, with offshore wind being the first item on the to-do list of the newly established business in which the Italian oil & gas major holds a 69.6 per cent stake. Namely, Vårgrønn’s first step will
Piraeus-based LNG shipper GasLog has tightened its loss during the third quarter of 2020.
Sparrows Group has secured a five-year contract with “a major UK Continental Shelf operator” to provide inspection services across its assets in the region.
Works on bringing the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind turbines to spin off the Scottish coast are moving forward with export cable route boulder clearance now completed. The same operations that were being carried out at the inter-array routes are paused for the winter, while activities on getting th
Aker Solutions and Kvaerner have completed a merger whereby Aker Solutions has absorbed all the assets, rights and obligations of Kvaerner and Kvaerner has been dissolved. The two entities have joined forces to create a new supplier of solutions to reduce climate gas emissions from oil and gas insta
Finnish wave energy company AW-Energy has embarked a 3-year project to develop processes for the roll-out of large megawatt wave farms.
Oil major ConocoPhillips has made a gas discovery southwest of the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea.
Norwegian oil major Equinor has awarded NorSea Group, Saga Fjordbase, and ASCO contracts for services at supply bases in Norway.
EOLOS has deployed its FLS200 floating LiDAR buoy in the waters where Wales’ first floating offshore wind farm, the 96 MW Erebus, will be built. The Spanish floating LiDAR supplier secured a contract for the Erebus project this summer with Blue Gem Wind, a joint venture between Ireland-based blue ec
Back-deck equipment specialist Maritime Developments MDL has opened a new global head office in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The cost-saving move merges two office-based teams previously spread between Aberdeen and Peterhead. This allowed the company to consolidate the costs associated with ru
Subsea UK has joined forces with Scottish Enterprise to launch a programme of practical support and workshops to help underwater engineering companies secure funding for research and development and innovation. Funding from UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) is worth around £6 billion per year but in
North Sea operator Chrysaor has submitted a licence application for the purpose of storing CO2 in a depleted reservoir in the North Sea off the UK.
Ørsted and the multinational oil and gas major bp have agreed to jointly develop a potential large-scale renewable hydrogen project in Germany powered by offshore wind. The project, which is expected to be operational in 2024, will comprise a 50 MW electrolyser system installed at bp’s Lingen Refine
Columbia Power Technologies (C-Power) has unveiled plans to test and validate the technical and economic capabilities of its SeaRAY autonomous offshore power system (AOPS).
